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100 Story Ideas

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Since I have more story ideas than I can possibly explore in a lifetime, delight allow me to offer some to you in this post.

Pick the idea that excites you the most, and yous'll notice that its momentum will conjure up a whole new story world, replete with fascinating new characters!

Story Ideas

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A character with an addiction who discovers that they're someone else'southward addiction.
A historical graphic symbol who travels to the present day and causes chaos when they steal back something that originally belonged to them.
An alien species that lands on world just is merely detectable through literature.
A earth where every other person is born with wings and the history of how this came about.
A magical object that teleports into the mitt of anyone who thinks most it, and the difficulties this causes for its possessor.
A character who's seeking justice for a murder they committed but can't prove.
A faustian musician who's trying to resurrect a dead musician so they can jam together.
A grapheme who's trying to win back their partner who ran away with their best friend.
A spirit animal's quest to choose their man.
A mythical drug that'south at the root of someone'due south family tree.
A fountain pen collector who'south found murdered, and the murder weapon is a fountain pen that was rumoured to accept belonged to a famous historical effigy.
A teenage boy who dreams of marrying a(n alien) princess.
A wedding planner who bears a secret grudge confronting happily married (or engaged) couples.
The history of a family who are committed to resurrecting an aboriginal art.
A character whose obsession with entomology threatens to unleash a plague of biblical proportions.
A grouping of archeologists who discover the ruins of Atlantis on a newly-formed volcanic island.
A knight who spends five years trying to break a spell cast on him by a witch, only to slowly fall in love with her.
A graphic symbol whose family unit and friends believe that they are a mythological effigy resurrected, even though they don't believe it themselves.
A sailor who is shipwrecked on an bogus island-kingdom owned by an eccentric billionaire who has been presumed dead for 10 years.
A character making friends while waiting for a hurricane to hit the hotel where they're staying.
A graveyard that'due south besieged by the souls of those who were cached outside its walls.
A bookshop that'southward the last refuge of a group of fans of an unusual (and very specific) genre.
An occultist who develops a sudden interest in science.
A vintner who mans an interplanetary expedition to solve the mystery of a grape blight.
A dragon who's in dear with a pelting deity and wants to find them the perfect gift.
A guest who begins to doubtable that they're not the but guest.
The founders of a town where the boilerplate IQ of the residents is abnormally high.
A warrior who discovers that their clan has been at war for centuries because of a typographical error that may accept ben deliberate.
A magical earth where all of the magic turns out to exist an elaborate illusion.
A teacher who takes omnipresence and finds that there's an extra student in their class.
An innkeeper who hires a magus, a troll, and an elf to guard their hugger-mugger recipe, simply finds they've put their trust in the wrong people.
A blind engagement that'due south interrupted by a guardian angel.
A psychic tour guide who organises tours that help people turn their lives effectually.
A painter who travels to another planet in search of a rare pigment.
A character who discovers a strange calendar which appears to prophesy important events in their life.
A teenager who has to choose between 2 very different schools.
A builder who specialises in magical doors, extensions, and passages.
A character who gets trapped in their memory palace and has to find a fashion out in order to save someone else.
A character who accidentally discovers the globe's best pencil and spends the rest of their life trying to continue information technology hush-hush at all cost.
A goddess who wakes upwardly and finds that her religion has been abandoned, and sets out to seek the crusade, and convert people back.
A miner who hits a vein of a strange new rock and becomes a target for a government agency that wants to proceed the discovery a secret.
A florist who sends flowers to a wrong address and initiates a chain of events that leads to 2 people meeting and falling in love.
A country where citizens vote AI into leadership, rather than people.
A graphic symbol who is obsessed with perfecting their life story by travelling back in time to right mistakes or flaws.
A character who has to fall in love with someone from an enemy clan in order to elevator a expletive.
A volume critic who is writing their first volume but becomes paralysed by the fear of receiving vengeful reviews.
A character whose task is to create treasure hunts, merely who finds themselves on someone else's treasure hunt, and ends up discovering an one-time coffin.
A knitter who unravels a ball of yarn only to observe information technology stained with blood, and helps the constabulary investigate a possible murder.
A character who is afraid to leave their house, but needs to travel to see a loved one who is critically ill in hospital.
A character who steals what they call up are the questions to an test, and finds that they're really an awarding class for a hugger-mugger, mythical order of scholars.
A protestation that'due south staged as cover for a huge heist.
A grapheme who regains their sanity through chess.
The history of the most valuable dress in the globe.
A character who discovers a undercover message on a bottle of shampoo while showering, and is driven by marvel to investigate it.
A peace treaty that's signed on board a dirigible over no-man's-land, and the people who fought for it.
A wealthy character who goes on a daytrip with a poor, homeless person, and switches places with them without realising.
2 people who autumn in love only come from planets where fourth dimension runs very differently.
A grapheme who is the "called i" and discovers that they were the 1 who created the prophecy.
A society that's organised according to an ancient symbol that they've misinterpreted.
A character who learns that the omens in their life are created by beings trying to guide them from another dimension.
A graphic symbol who finds a baby abandoned in a bus shelter and embarks on a roadtrip with a wet nurse to try to find its parents.
A time-travelling antique dealer who steals their favourite author's writing desk.
A detective who has to overcome their fear of flight in order to investigate the murder of a flight attendant.
A character who is biologically attracted to danger.
A character who is preparing to go through a rite of passage that involves death but not resurrection.
A character whose lover breaks upwards with them and so secretly follows them for a decade.
A gamer who has to rescue a existent princess.
2 characters who exit to seek their fortunes in order to get married.
A rock band that tours the world and investigates crimes.
A psychologist who's trying to hide their agoraphobia.
The coiffure of a spaceship that have been trying to find their mode back to their home planet for centuries.
A vampire who gives blood rather than drinking information technology.
A private letter that falls into the easily of an influential leader and changes their outlook on life.
A grapheme who learns that their parents were guilty of a terrible law-breaking, and sets out to collect prove against them.
A character who has been living equally a recluse for many years, and learns that the people of a nearby settlement regard them equally a guru, and have written books and made films about them.
What Romeo and Juliet get up to in the afterlife.
A graphic symbol who stumbles upon a strange machine that their science instructor has been edifice in the school basement, and decides to aid.
A character who reads their first book at the age of 81.
A character who awakens an ancient mythical fauna while scouting for a movie location at a remote monastery.
Another planet's infinite race.
A tattoo creative person who helps a detective solve murders that involve tattooed victims.
Two lovers who are separated past a bridge that can't be maintained much longer.
A fortune teller who becomes a suspect in a murder when information technology's discovered that they foretold the victim's death.
A retired hitman who resolves to atone for his work by saving people who are being targeted past their sometime employer.
A world where the gods of several pantheons join forces to eradicate their worshippers.
A graphic symbol who is addicted to seeking out experiences of extreme solitude, and their eventual "healing".
A memoirist whose distinction betwixt their life story and the life they're living begins to dissolve until their friends stage an intervention for them.
A diplomat to the fairy realm whose task is to negotiate a trade agreement.
A decorator who becomes increasingly convinced that the owner of the firm they're working on is trying to cover up a murder, even equally they autumn in love with them.
A grapheme who works on a telephone helpline develops a relationship with one of the callers, and arranges to meet them only to exist stood up.
A doctor investigating a rare disease that they specialise in who discovers that it'due south artificially engineered, just equally they begin to show symptoms themselves.
A character whose job is to make clean upwards people'south imaginations.
A world where the people develop space travel in guild to communicate with their deities who live on another planet, but find that the gods have vanished mysteriously.
A character living in a nursing dwelling house who wakes up one solar day to detect themselves inundated with fan post.
A grapheme whose commute lasts a lightyear.
A character whose fear of missing out drives them to found a surveillance network.
A character who has a fascination with all kinds of forgery, and how this involvement will eventually lead to their expiry.
A moving picture star who is actually two film stars.
A gild that encourages and rewards mistakes and failure over success.
A writer who's trying to give up their writing addiction.

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Where to Observe More than Story Ideas

Generate even more than ideas by transposing the story ideas to a higher place into different genres, by replacing words or clauses, or by combining two or more ideas together.
My friend, Emma Welsh, has an ENORMOUS list of 365 story ideas hither. My favourites: #viii, #17, #111, #213, #273 & #360!
Lookout man this fun video to see how easy it is to invent 100 story ideas in an hour.
Self Publishing School has some great story prompts divided by genre.
I have some other list of 52 romance story ideas with built-in conflict!
Bestselling author, Jerry Jenkins, has an excellent post on finding story ideas and developing them into a full story (+ the Greyhound Autobus Challenge)!
As well many story ideas? Try the Idea Ranker.